Combing-machine.



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Patented Nov'. 1 8, 1913'i Application filed February 27, 1911, Serial No. 611,114., Renewed May 1d, 1913. Serial No. 767,719.

To all whom t may] concern:

Be it known that l, JOHN ofthe United States of America, residing in the borough of Brooklyn, city and State of New York, have invented thenew and useful improvements in Comhing Machines hereinafter set forth. i.

These imprcvementsrelate to high draft combing machines, particularly of the mul# trated. for example in the drawings forming part hereof and in the various details of such arrangement whereby various econo` mies of labor and machinery are made possible, but many of the individual features of the invention which go to make up the circular multiple feed machine shown in the drawing, are not limited to such type of machine, and can be used with advantage in other kinds of fiber-working machinery as will be evident to those skilled in this art. These features form the subject of independent claims appended hereto, and include the means for doliing the liber from the pins of the combing train whereby the sliver may he removed without exerting draft upon it, which possibility renders the machine useful. for combing certain very tenuous or short bers that do not readily hold together in the form in which they would otherwise leave the combing pins.` The said features also include the means for varying thecomhing rake without disassembling theV machine, oriwhile it is in motion, a matter of great importance in readily understood when vconsidered in connection with the drawings.

The drawings comprise six sheets, Figure l being a top plan; Fig. 2 a similar view with the feed heads, delivery head and platform removed; Fig. 3 avertical central section taken substantially on the line IIL-Ill in Fig, l; Fig. 4f anenlarged end view of one of the feed head; with adjacent parts of the combing pin trai-n; carriage and gearing in section; Fig. l5 a radial vertical section GOOD, a citizen high draft combing apparatus; and various other novel and usei'ul devices` and combinations; all of which will be moreV on line V-V of Fig. 2 on an enlarged scale; Fig. (5 a detail partly in horizontal section and partly in plan, of the combing pin train and its trackways and supports; and Fig 7 a developed diagram of the combing pin train with one of the feed-heads and the delivery head in elevation and parts of the combingipin train broken out and shown in section to indicate the operative relation of the parts.

The frame of the machine comprises a series of radial girders l, supported by legs 2 at their outer extremities, and at their inner extremities upon a central post or y column 3 which forms the center of the machine, about which the carriage of the combingpin train revolves. The carriage com prises a sleeve d journaled to rotate on the cental `frame post 3 and vertically supported on the annular footstep 5 which support-s the post and rests on the bedplate or fcundaticai.4 The sleeve forms the support flange 7 thereon at equal angular intervals and supported at their outer ends by a corresponding` series of tie rods S radiating from the head of the sleeve. The radial arms happen to be directly beneath the radial giiders l of the stationary frame, as shoui'nin Fig. 2, but the tie-rods 8 appear therein between the side plates of which those girders are formed. A circular rack Si is attached to the underside of the carriage arms, and is normally in mesh with a drivepinion l0 which is bevebgeared to the powensliaft 1l, through which the carriage is rotated, as clearly indicated in Fig. 5. '.lhe rack is shown as formed in segmental sections because of its very considerable diameter, but it will be understood that any proper means for rot-ating the carriage will servo the `purpose as well as that indicated in the-drawings. The outer ends-of the radial carriage arms 6 form the support for two circular upright walls 1Q and 13 which are secured thereon concentrically with the annular channel or space between them suitable for confining a combing pin train of desired width. ln the present case, the combing train is formed of a series of gill bars 14.- each bearing a row of combing pins and mounted on the carriage or in its walls 1:2 and 13 so to be capable of rising and falling movement therein. The sinifor a series of radial arms (i secured to the axis of the central post 8, providing an plest, but not the only way of providing for such movement orp the gill bars consists in mounting' th in in slots 15, in the two ring-shaped walls 12 and 13, so that the vertical planes in which they are movable will be radial to the axis of the carriage, and spaced from each other by equal arcuate distances. As thus mounted, the end portions ot each gill bar project through their respective slots 15 into engagement with grooved trackways on either side which are fixed to the machine trame close to the carriage walls. As the carriage rotates, carrying with it the series of gill bars, the latter are caused to rise or fall in accordance with the change in height of the trackways in different parts ot the path of motion. The inner trackway is marked 16, being a continuous member provided with a groove to receive the ends of the gill bars, and is supported upon several frame brackets 17 depending from the frame girders 1. The outer trackway is marked 1S and is formed of two parts or members adjustably bolted to legs of the frame and providing` between them an open slotthrough which the other ends of the gill bars 141 project. lt will of course be understood that the groove of the inner trackway 17 and the slot of the outer trackway 18 are 1parallel with each other, so that each of the gill bars will be maintained horizontal throughout its full travel around the machine. The end orn each gill bar which projects into or through the slot in the trackway 18, is provided with a dog 19, in the form of a single crank arm 6) extending obliquely from the axes ot the gill bar and terminating in a cylindrical boss 19e, )arallel with the bar. As all the dogs are tast to their gill bars, the position oi the bosses 19a thereof with respect to the gill-bar trackway will obviously determine the angle oit' rake of the combing pins with which each is equipped. Tl ese bosses are guided by their engagement in the independent trackway 20, which is parallel with the gill har trackway for such port-ions of the circtit of the combing train as require a constant angle of rake and departs from parallelism, upwardly or downwardly, according as the rake is required to vary. ll/Thile the dog trackway 2G may be iXedly secured to the machine frame, it is preterably mounted with provisions for vertical movement relatively to the gill bar trackways, and such means may consist of a series of three or more worm wheels 21, journaled on the trame legs and engaging worm racks cut or formed in the outer side of the ring which Jforms the dog trackway. The worm-wheels are bevel-geared to handwheels 22, by the operation of which the dog trackway 20 may be raised or lowered as desired to change the angle of rake, and this may be accomplished even while the combing pin train is in motion. rlhe trackway moreover be flexible or articulated it desired so that different degrees of change can be caused to be effected by it in diliierent parts ot the combing trains circuit by correspondingly manipulating the hand wheels 22 adjacent such parts. This means ol variably controlling the rake is quite independent, as will be observed, of the strucure or form oro the combing pin train. 1t is applicable in obvious manner to combing pin chains of any of the usual types. 1nstead of shitting the dog trackway, however, the gill bar trackway could be shifted by the hand wheels with like eect, since it is the cha-nge in the relative position of one with respect to the other that controls the angle ofralre.

The two ring shaped walls of the combing train carriage arespanned by a table or grid, formed in the present instance ot a series ot' round rods 23 held in sockets in the upper margins of the walls and properly spaced so that the pins on the gill bars may project through the spaces between them. The height of the table above the pins is suited to the range of vertical movement of the latter so that when the pins move to their lowest positions their points will withdraw sufficiently below the upper surface of the grid rods or table to remove or dotil any fiber that may have been previously engaged therewith and leave it resting freely on the tops or" the bars. It will berobvious that any kind or' table having openings through which thev combing pins may project will be capable of performing a like function, relative movement between the table and pins being all that is necessary to eiiect the dotling of the liber, and this being irrespective of which be the vertically movable part. rEhe arrangement orn the combing pin train of the kind above described, in the form ot a horizontal flat annulus, possesses numerous advantages over ordinary combing pin instruments and constitutes a broad feature of the present invention. 1t will be observed for instance that substantially the whole length of the annular train is available for service, there being no idle stretch, as in the case of the ordinary hackle chain, and that the individual gill-bars are not required to move over short curves or corners or to engage with sprocket wheel teeth, and that they are at all times maintained in vertical planes which are equally spaced apart, whether the pins be in course of rising or falling, and tinally that the arrangement makes for high speed with relatively little power.

Fiber is ted to the combing pin train from several points above the same by means of a series of circularly and tandem arranged feed-heads. All of these feed-heads may or conductor 33 at *the lower be exactly alike and are so shown in the drawing, so that a description of one will suffice for all. AS shown in Figs. 3 and Ll, the `several parts of the feed-head are car ried in a frame werk 24C of obvious construction which is secured to the radial frame girders 1V above referred to. A. series of closely juxtaposed feeding cylinders 25, three in number in thepresent case, is mounted in the framework 24, each cylinder being jour naled by its shaft '25;L to rotate on a horizon tal axis, and driven by means of a shaft 26 having worm and worin driving connections 27 `with each of them. The cylinder driving shaft 26 is bevel-geared to an upright shaft 28 journaled on the frame lugs 2 and driven at the bottom through the spur gears 29 and 80 from the carriage rack 9 above re-V ferred to. rfhere is one such shaft and set of spur gears, driven from the carriage rack, for each feed head. rl`he construction of the individual feeding cylinders 25, which are all alike, `comprises a cylindrical, perforated drum or shell containing a series of gill bars which revolve in radial slideways therewith, with their ends projecting from the drum andguided in cam-plates at the `opposite `ends, so as to cause the pins thereon to projectand withdraw through the perforations as the cylinder rotates. The construction of cylinders of this kind is well known in the art -and will not require fur` ther'description. As arranged in the present case the cam plates, appearing at 31,A are arranged to cause the projection of thee lower sides of the three cylin-l to form an inverted train -of` pins moving downwardly and toward the Above the feeding cyl-v` inclined feedtable 321 are adapted to inthe usual way to form `a continuous lap of the fiber to be combed,

pins on the ders so as combing pin train. inders there is an upon which bunches of fiber be lapped together which is then passed through anelbow chute end of the table, into engagement with the train of feeding pins formed by the three cylinders, which thereupon "take it up and advance it toward the combing train. A board or apron 3ft, supported directly opposite the inverted pins of the feeding train, and provided with hammocks Bda to -make it conform tothe contour of the juxtaposed cylinders, serves to hold the ber lap thereon duringl its movement. The organization of the combing train elements is such that the f combing of the laps fed in this way may be accomplished, either by immediate and deep penetration of the pins into the fiber, or by the socalled floating method, according to which the liber `is allowed to trail or ride on the top of the pins, floating on the pin-points as it were, so as to become gradually Vteased open and loose, allowing individual flbers to be pulled Vout of the un- Ato either principle. In

Vthan tothe floating action,

combed Ylap one after the other, andpass ott' onto the train, moving thereon to the de- ?livery head. rlhe difference in the action is determined by the position of the feed-heads with respect to the train of pins and also the rake of the latter as they pass the feed heads, In the one case the feed-heads are lowered close to the fiber table or grid 23, and the gill-bar trackways are made to give a dip to the train in order to clear the lower end of the feed head where it passes beneath it; in the other case, the feed head is higher and the pins move by without dipping. It will beobvious that the same machine may be quickly changed over to work according the machine fas showmthe Afibers are subject to direct penetration by the combing pins, rather more and for this reason, as shown in the developed view of Fig. 7, the gillbar trackways 1G and l8'move downwardly as they approach the end of the feed-board 3ft and then immediately rise into the fiber. The same action takes place at each feed-head, and after passing the last feed-head, the pins continue in elevated and parallel relation untilthey reach the delivery device. As the same combing operation is duplicated at each of the several feed heads, all of which are intended to operate simultaneously, the fibers vthat are drawn Voff and taken up from `,each by the combing train, form a sliver thereon which is the composite of the several feeds, and therefore possesses an evenness of weight represented by the average of the `several separately supplied feeds. Y

The number of feed-heads and the draft of the combing pin train are obviously the chief controlling factors of the weight of the composite sliver that is formed on the combing train, and these may be varied in accordance with the work to be done, as Well as with the nature of the fiber, as will be readily understood.

The delivery device shown in the case taken for illustration, comprises a pair of leather aprons 35 guided over rollers in a frame 36 at one end, and a further frame 37 at the other, the aprons being driven in the direction of the arrows, by pulleys and belt 38, 39, through a change speed box 40, receiving its power from the drive shaft 11. The lower rollers of each apron are arranged with their axes substantially `radial to the combing pin carriage and in a position where the sliver introduced into the nip between them, will be taken up between the two contacting aprons 35 and thus removed from the combing train, but other kinds' of fiber delivery means may be used,

used in different ways, te perdischarging `the combed the fiber; table.

form "the function of fi-ber `from "the pins `or Afrom `When it is desired to reduce the weight of the sliver that is removed from the combing train, the speed of the delivery aprons is set to exceed that of the train, so as to draw the fibers from the lat-ter with a correspondino` attenuation, and in such case it is desirable to cause the combing pins to reverse their forward angle of rake as they approach the delivery head, as indicated in F 7, this being accomplished in the obvious manner by a corresponding change in the relation between the gill bar trachways and the dog traclrways, as will be readily understood. rEhe traclrway which controls the elevation of the combing' pins, is depressed as it approaches the delivery head so as to cause the train to dip under and clear the lower apron roller, thereby allowing the delivery head to exert a straight drawing pull on the fiber in substantially the plane of the pins, which arrangement is of obvious advantage. lt is frequently necessary, however, with certain fibers to remove the sliver from the combine` train with no draft whatever, and in such cases the pins are adjusted to recede through the grid somewhat earlier and leave the fiber lying freely on the grid fiber table as it approaches the delivery device, which may remove it therefrom in any suitable manner. lf such delive y device comprises aprons like those referred to, they are of course properly adjusted as to speed to move at substantially the velocity of the combing train. The sliver moving upwardly between the aprons, whether removed with draft or without, is deposited at the top of the aprons upon a short conductor d1 over which it moves to the calender rolls d2 and thence to the sliver shown at The calender' rolls d2 are iven by a belt as will be plain from ene drawings without further explanation. central platform l is placed on the frame structure within the circular combing train, on which the attendant stands to supply the fiber to the several feed heads, access to the platform for the attendant, as .vell as for the material handled, being proded by a section of flooring 46 crossing c combing train between the first feed anc. the delivery head.

om the description above given the operation of the machine will be evident. It will he understood moreover, that the feet boards can be readily modified to take continuous ber laps produced elsewhere instead of bunches of raw fiber, and that the combing draft can be varied as desired by nterposing suitable gear combinations for he change gears 29 and 30 which drive the Teed head shafts, so that the appropriate draft for every lrind of fiber will be provided for. it will be further observed that the dipping of the combing train may be modified in various ways and as above eX- plained, with or without simultaneous alteration in the angle of rake, and that the ralre of the pins alone can be controlled by shifting the relation of the dog and gill-bar traclrways in other Ways than above indicated. The gill-bar traclways are preferably fixed parts of the machine frame and are not readily susceptible of bodily change of 1position nor of local flexing, for which reason modification of dipping motion of the combing pins is preferably accomplished by removing sections of the trackway where the change is desired and substituting other sections of the proper shape to give the elevation required for the ains. Both gill-bar raclzways 1G and 18 anc thedog trackway are made and assembled in sections for this purpose and as indicated in F ig. 7.

lfhile it is preferred to employ inverted trains of feeding pins, such as provided by the three adjacent feed cylinders having self-housing pins, ordinary haclrle chains could be used for this purpose with nearly the same facility, and moreover while it is preferred to mount the several feed heads on the frame which is stationary, it. will be observed that it is possible for the combing pin carriage to be held stationary and for all the other parts to revolve.

l claim:

1. in a combing machine, a moving grid, ay plurality of combing pins moving therewith, and -neans for impaitin01 to said pins simultaneously with such movement two otner iovements, viz. a substantially endwise movement relatively through the grid and an angular movement.

in a combing machine, an endless train of upright combing pins, an endless moving grid through which such pins may project to eng; je the fiber, and means for producing i.e-ative movement between the grid and pins to the fiber from the latter.

3. A combing machine comprising a flat and substantially horizontal grid forming a liber table and means for moving the same, a train of upright combing pins projecting 'through the grid int-o the fiber thereon, and means for moving the pins relatively to the table to doti the liber therefrom.

e. A combing machine comprising an cX- tended flat fiber table and means for driving "t, a train of pins projecting through the i table, and means for feeding fiber to the pro- 1 l ecting pins, in combination with means for iroducinc; relative movementbetween the pins and the table to free the pins from the fiber thereon and means for discharging ln .a combing machine, a liber table, a moving of gill bars having combing pins profiectingl through the table, and means for feeding fiber to the projecting pins, said g`ll-bars having dogs in the form of crank arms and provided with a guideway cotiti operating With said dogs to maintain the rake or' the pins during the movement of the train. j

6. ln a combing machine a moving train of combing pins, means capable oi' adjustment While the train is moving to vary the rake of the pins and means for feeding fiber to the pins.

7. ln a combing machine, a moving grid, a moving train of combing pins projecting through the grid, and means capable of adjustment While the train is in motion to vary the rake of the pins, in combination with means for feeding liber to the train from a point above the same and a delivery head ior `the fiber.

8. ln a combing machine a moving grid, a combing train having` pins projecting through the grid and means for iteeding liber to said projecting pins, the pins tor the port-ion of the `train Which is immediately` adjacent to the iiberteed being parallel and forwardly inclined for operation on the liber, in combination with means for withdrawing the pins from the grid to doti' the liber therefrom.

9. A combing machine comprising a ber table, a moving train of pins projecting through the table, means Ior maintaining such pins Vin upright position, a train oi' feeding pins whereby fiber is fed to the pins projecting through the table, means for relatively moving the table and pins todoii' the liber from the latter, and means for delivering the combed fiber.

10. ln a combing machine, a ber table, a` combing pin train projecting through the table into the fiber thereon and having means for maintaining the pins thereof in substantial parallelism throughout the por- `tion thereof Which engages and combs the fiber, in combination with means for feeding the ber to the said pins `from a point above the same and a sliver delivery device.

11. In a combing machine a train ci gillbars having a traclmvay on which the train moves, dogs on the gill-bars and a traclrvvay for the dogs and means 'for changing the relative positions of said traclrvvays to vary the rake of the pins et the gill-bars.

12. In a combing machine, a train of gill-j bars movable in a trackway and having dogs also movable in a traclrivay, one oit said trackivays being iiXed and the other movable and a machine element for moving the movable tracliivay to vary the rake of the gillbar pins.

13. ln a combing machine, a train of gillbars having a trackvvay in which the train moves, adapted to produce rising and falling movement et the gill bars, dogs on the gill-bars, a traclivvay for the dogs and means for varying the relation of the two trackvvays to vary the rake of the gill-bar pins.

14:. In a combing machine, a moving grid forming a table to support the liber, a train oi combing pins moving with the table and projecting through the same, in combination vwith means for lfeeding liber at successive points alone' the length or' the train ot pins, means ll'or relatively withdrawing the pins from the liber on the table and a sliver delivery head.

15. ln a combing machine, a moving grid, a combing pin train projecting through thc grid and moving therewith, plural means for feeding ber to the projecting pins,

means for relatively withdrawing or separating the train and grid to doit' the liber from the pins and a single sliver delivery head.

16. In a combing machine, a moving train of gill bars maintained respectively in, vertical planes that are separated by a non-varying dist-ance throughout the entire path of motion of the train.

17. A circular combing machine having a space. in the center for the attendant.

18. A circular combing machine comprising an endless Vtrain of combing pins and having a platform in the center for the attendant, and an entrance to such platform overlying the said train.

19. A combing machine comprising a number of feed-heads arranged in positions substantially equidistant from a central point, and adapted for independently advancing the fiber into the combing pin train, in combination with a combing pin train and delivery head common to all the feed heads.

20. A combing machine having a circular train oi combing pins, a plurality of means for continuously feeding fiber thereto arranged above the train to feed the fiber downwardly thereto, and a delivery head common to several feeding means.

21. ln a circular combing machine, a carriage comprising two concentric annular' Walls, upper and lower sets of cross-members spanning' said Walls, one of said sets being carried in traclnvays adjacent the carriage and adapted to have rising and falling movement With respect to the other, and pins on the members ot' one of the sets.

22. In a circular combing machine, a rotary carriage formed of concentric annular Walls, a set of cross-members iixed thereon and forming an annular iiber table, and a set of gill-bars mounted for vertical movement in the carriage, in combination With a cam track adjacent the carriage to produce such movement of the gill bars therein.

23. ln a circular combing machine, a rotary carriage provided with an annular fiber table, and carrying a train of gill bars with provisions for vertically moving the same to project the pins thereoil through the table, in

2li. In a combing machine, a carriage having gill bars provided With dogsand mounted in vertical slots in the carriage, a generally horizontal traclrway support-ing the bars in the carriage, and a substantially parallel traclrway for the gill bar dogs.

25. ln a combing machine, a train of gill bars, .a moving larriage therefor, dogs on ihe gill bars having obliquely disposed and successively overlapping crank arms, a traclrway for the gill bars and a second tracl-:Way for the dogs thereof.

26. In a circular combing machine, a rotary carriage, an annular combing pin train moved thereby, and several feed-heads for said train, each receiving its driving mot-ion from the said rotary carriage.

27. In a combing machine, an annular train of upright combing pins having different rake in different portions of its path of movement.

28. In a combing machine, a plurality of liber feeding means arranged one behind the other, and all contributing their feeds to a single combing pin train, in combinationI Wit-li such train and means for causing the pins thereof to have direct penetration into the ber fed by said feeding means.

29. In a combing machine, a plurality of feed-heads tandem arranged and feeding to a single combing pin train, in combination with such train having means for causing its pins to directly penetrate the feed from each feed head, and a single delivery mechanism producing a composite sliver from the several feeds.

30. ln a combing machine, a moving combing-pin train and` means for feeding fiber to be combed thereto, in combination with means for causing a dip in the path of the pinsV at a point in advance of the point of feed.

3l. In a combing machine, the combination of a substantially flat, moving, combinggrid provided with combing pins adapted to fall and rise through the same, a feed-head above the grid adapted to project fiber into the path of said pins and means for depressing said pins as they pass the feed head.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two Witnesses.

JOHN GGOD.

Witnesses:

G. A. TAYLOR, H. G. KIMBALL.

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